“Can you partition this drive into 2/4tb? I want to use 4 for a Mac and 4 for a PC.”
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Hi JS, Please be informed that the Easystore Desktop drive is a high-capacity storage device that offers fast data transfer rates, is both USB 3.0 ready and USB 2.0 compatible, comes preformatted in NTFS file system, and built with the trusted quality and reliability that WD is known for. However, you can format the drive in exfat file system to use with macOS and Windows computers. Please refer to the link to know more: https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20821 -Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The drive is formatted for Windows using the whole drive in one partition. Using Windows disk management you should be able to delete that partition and set up smaller partitions and format one for a PC. I don't know enough about Mac to know if you could then format another partition for Mac or not. My best guess would be if you leave the second 4TB as unallocated space with Windows disk management and then set it up with Mac it might work. The other thing I don't know is if the two OS will leave a partition for the other OS alone. Using the same drive for both may not work but if you know it can I think I would try it this way.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you would like to share data, you could partition it so one partition is NTFS and the other HFS+, but... Just use software for either platform to read AND write data for HFS+ (windows) and Paragon NTFS (os x) If you're jumping around multiple stations, and getting that software for all of them is too expensive, just format the drive into two partitions with the eXFAT file system. Both operating systems can read and write to it. Read online how to do that for each OS.
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